I think soon I'll be showing some speed paints... In my suite that _I made_! What could be a better test flight?
Mattzo Retsyn
@retsyn.bsky.social
Tech Director for VFX studios, Indie Game Dev, college instructor. Teaches people rigging and programming. Helps people get and stay employed in CG. If you think AI has a place in media, I'm here to point and laugh at you. Makes adorable videogames.
@danjohnston.uk hey, I'd love to be added to the No AI indie games list. I'm working on AI-less games, and custom dev tools in the hope that the accessibility AI apologists crave can be demonstrated other ways. Thanks for considering me!
Hi! I just launched a new three month DOS jam! Don't have enough free time to contribute to a standard game jam? This one's E X T E N D E D. Please feel free to join in, even (especially!) if you have no experience! It's a very casual vibe, and there are even a few assets to help start you off!
MS-TRES
A game jam from 2026-08-31 to 2026-12-01 hosted by Emmfoolery. It's time for another three month DOS jam! This is a casual, lighthearted jam, to encourage skill-building, community links, and the crea...
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Read this thread right here. This is the damage, this is the price. Wounds inflicted directly on the type of person who TRAINS (unwillingly) your fucking models. Where will your slop machines be when the rest of us refuse to feed them our talents?
Freya Holmér@freya.bsky.social · 2mo agothis wave of AI has legitimately killed a huge part of what I loved about seeing stuff online, what I loved about being an educator, and what I loved about sharing my own work I just don't feel like doing it anymore
Flat Earthers think CG artists work tirelessly to fake footage from the ISS and NASA. Man I wish that were true. I could have a cushy government job and consistent work.
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Technical Artist: The cup you have in mind might seem really simple, but there's basically no way to fill it without imposing some extremely counterintuitive limitations on the shape of the cup, or melting your GPU.
Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 2mo agoOptimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Historian: The cup can teach you a lot of things that you do not want to know
Popped over to Twitter to half assedly promote something, and the feed is nearly 100% people I do not follow and do not know using grok to undress people. I guess everyone I followed left. But Holy shit what a catastrophic crater it became.
@humblemudgames.bsky.social gives the upcoming Poulet A+ for #Arduboy a shout out! (And documents all the best stuff in the Arduboy library!-- if you're new to #Arduboy this vid is a perfect introduction.) youtu.be/_TZnPKsxbY0?... #1bit #lowspec #platformer
I Played the World's THINNEST Handheld Console | Arduboy FX-C Review
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I’M FINALLY OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS AGAIN! After a cat cancer scare, surgery, infection, and heal-up and then a horrible inner ear infection of my own I NEED INCOME (BADLY) and can make some dope art for you in exchange! No NSFW, no AI ever Email or DM me to discuss what you’d like 👍
I think devs I respect use UE to some degree of success, but when you use FAB store stuff, it's got undocumented "features" that are hard to reverse engineer, you can't tell why your edits don't work, etc etc. If I did a true project in Unreal perhaps I'd like it, but this asset flip project? blah.
Three straight days of debugging someone else's UE asset has come to a close. FML. #ue
Shigeru Miyamoto says the games that resonate most with players all around the world aren’t those deliberately designed for global appeal, but those based on a developer’s personal interests. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/miyamot...
Miyamoto: Games based on developers’ personal interests resonate around the world, not those aiming for global appeal | VGC
If developers try to make something the world will like, it becomes generic…
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Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out
"The newly appointed Minister for AI is expected to meet with the Minister for NFTs, Lord Blockchain and the Secretary of State for Pogs this afternoon."
Hey #PortfolioDay I’m Jeff, an illustrator and comic artist with a vibrant chameleon style looking for work in comics, publishing, video games, and more! I also create the webcomic HAMMERHEAD 🎨 jeffpennington.art 🔗 jeffpennington.carrd.co 📫 contact@jeffpennington.art 🍖 hammerhead.webcomic.ws
Stupid fucking kid not able to make a proper illustration on their own... what a fucking idiot. This is the real problem today, shitty kid's art that isn't ready for the publishing world.
Stack cats and soar to whole new heights! Wishlist Copy Cats on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4700300/... #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #puzzlegame #cats
Journey of the Garden Rose is 20% off in the Steam Summer Sale! store.steampowered.com/app/3692110/...
Everyone and their aunt has implemented a Voxel Engine. This one is #godotengine with #csharp. I needed a break from #ThunderAxis ! #sideproject #minecraft #voxels #gamedev
I am working on stuff constantly, it just isn't producing visuals or otherwise publishables. I am still here!
This makes me so Happy! I don't know how many people enjoy my game on the regular, but it's not a lot. Big thanks to @mwdashadow.bsky.social ! I also never imagined times like this.
MwdaShadow@mwdashadow.bsky.social · 4mo agoI got Poulet Poulet down to a 32:09, with my first deathless run. I'm leaving it here for now, and I plan to come back to this game in the future. A sub-30 is definitely possible with what I know now, and there may be more to discover. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ79...
I got Poulet Poulet down to a 32:09, with my first deathless run. I'm leaving it here for now, and I plan to come back to this game in the future. A sub-30 is definitely possible with what I know now, and there may be more to discover. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ79...
Poulet Poulet Any% PB as of 2026-06-18 in 32:09 (Current World Record)
YouTube video by MwdaShadow
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Today I saw beautiful cartoon animation in a VFX film. Waste of a great animator on the wrong job. People will call it "bad VFX" in spite of it being beautiful- just because it doesn't read as real. And they would be right, really. I never call out the film or studio as a rule. #animation #vfx
Working in CG I've seen leaps and bounds in deformers and rigs in my 13 years. And lo, the complexity and timelines just keeps up, or indeed overtakes any time we win.
tctc@toastcrust.bsky.social · 4mo agoeven if LLM actually made gamedev more efficient, which I see no reason to believe it has or will, that won't reduce crunch, because the business people will just push harder until you're crunching again. When a tool increases worker productivity, that doesn't translate into better work hours.
even if LLM actually made gamedev more efficient, which I see no reason to believe it has or will, that won't reduce crunch, because the business people will just push harder until you're crunching again. When a tool increases worker productivity, that doesn't translate into better work hours.
A concept I'm on high alert for now is "Productivity Theatre". I've heard it dropped discussing businesses relationship to tech before, but having worked in offices for decades now, I think it's older than we realize. #middlemanagers